The story of how we destroyed our world with plastic – and how to fix it

World is full of plastic components, we can found islands of this material, how we got to this point?

There are five trillion pieces of plastic in our oceans. A plastic
bag was found 36,000 feet below the surface, at the ocean’s deepest
point, the Mariana Trench.

Most of the plastic found at the bottom of the sea by divers (89%)
has one thing in common, the Deep Sea Debris Database reported: it’s
waste such as plastic bottles and bags, designed to be used just once,
then thrown away.

This visible plastic is just the tip of the iceberg. Tests by
Newcastle University researchers found that sea creatures living in the
deepest reaches of the sea had fragments of plastic in their stomachs
and muscles.

Sea creatures are dying across the world as a result of our addiction
to plastic, with a sperm whale washing ashore in Spain last year with
28 kilos of plastic in its stomach, including plastic bags, nets and a
jerry can. It had died from gastric shock.